The Low/High of My Weekend

This past weekend was busy.  I have had a not-so-great mommy moment, but I've also met a personal goal.  I'll tell you about the not-so-great mommy moment first.

Saturday morning was a busy morning for me.  I babysat my two nephews from 8 a.m. -12:30 p.m. for my sister.  She took my daughter to a kid's cheerleading clinic my niece's school was putting on.  Around 7:30 a.m., I woke my children to get them ready.  My daughter ate waffles and a banana for breakfast.  She's dressed, fed, and ready to go.  My son was going to be home most of the time so I wasn't as concerned about getting him breakfast.  He decided to eat one waffle and half a bagel.  He wasn't very hungry.  No biggie.  I knew he would eat something else if he got hungry.  

The boys are busy playing Hero Factory in my son's room.  At 9 a.m., I remember my son has a tae kwon do test he has to go to.  The test starts at 10:30 a.m. He gets dressed and we leave at 10:10 a.m. When I drop him off, I notice there are a lot of cars in the parking lot so I knew there were a lot of people testing.  The tests usually last around three hours.  

In the meantime, I take the boys back to my house to play more Hero Factory.  I feed them lunch and color with them until my sister picks them up at 12:30 p.m.  She also brings my daughter home.  

My daughter spends the next hour telling me all about the cheerleading clinic.  She had a great time.  She learned a short dance routine and a cheer.  I had not received a phone call from my son asking me to pick him up by 1:30 p.m. I decided if I hadn't heard from him by 2 p.m., I'll just drive up there and wait.  I didn't hear from him, so my daughter and I go up there. They are still in the middle of sparring.  In short, we spent the next hour and a half there while they finished sparring and breaking boards. The test is over by 3:30 p.m.  He's been at the test for five hours.  My son comes out and says, "Mom, I don't feel so good.  My legs are shaky, my back hurts, and my stomach is empty!"

I felt so bad.  I usually feed him a nice, big, filling breakfast on tae won do test days, but I completely forgot about the test and only gave him half the breakfast I would have.  Have you ever forgotten to feed your kids or sent them off somewhere starving because you don't have your head on straight?  Low point.  Luckily, I took him home and fed him a late lunch and he felt much better.

I have a high point of the weekend too though.  Today, I was able to wear my shirt.  Know which shirt I'm talking about?  You can read about it here.  Well, I pulled that shirt out of the closet today.  Ironed it.  Tried it on.  Not bad.  I liked it. I had my son take a picture of me in it.  This is the best picture of about 10 pictures.  I choose one with all of my head in the picture.  :)

I'm still getting up to walk in the mornings.  I'm up to 4 1/2 miles every morning.  Still struggling with not guzzling Cokes.  Sticking to have just one a week, but I've been craving it lately.  Still working on not snacking or eating off my kid's plates.  Everything is still a work in progress.  However,  I have lost just over 30 pounds.  I purchased a pair of jeans yesterday that were two sizes smaller than what I was wearing earlier this year.  I was nervous to even try them on, but I did.  They fit.  Since the jeans fit, I wondered if the shirt would fit too.  This morning I pulled it out of the closet and ironed it.  I tried it on and was happy with how it fit.  Yay! High point.

I still have a long way to go.  I'm only 35% of the way to the first weight goal I set for myself, but I will keep working on it.